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SAMUEL TEVIS, M.D.
SAMUEL TEVIS, M.D., has been a resident of California
since 1868. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky,
in 1859, the son of Joshua and Miriam (Carter) Tevis,
who removed with their family to California
in 1868. Samuel received his primary education in the schools of San
Francisco, and his preparatory college course was pursued at Concord,
New Hampshire, where he remained four
years. Returning to California, he entered the Hastings’
Law School, and
then the law department of the University
of California, where he received
the Bachelor of Arts, degree after a three year course. He admitted to practice
in the Supreme Court of California, and devoted two years to the practice of
law, one year of which he held the position of Courtroom Clerk of the Supreme
Court of San Francisco. Mr. Tevis then decided to
take up the study of medicine, and commenced attending lectures at the medical
department of the University of California,
which he continued for one year. At the end of that time he went to Philadelphia,
where he entered the Jefferson Medical
College, and after the usual three
years course he graduated as a doctor of medicine. He then went to London and
Paris, where he took a course in the hospitals of those cities, spending six
months in gaining the experience to be had only in those institutions.
Returning to America,
the Doctor took a course at the post-Graduate College, to make himself thorough
as possible in his profession. On coming to San Francisco
he entered into practice at No. 226 Post Street,
where he has continued to practice since that time. He was appointed
Commissioner of Insanity, which position he held for one year. He is a member
of the County Medical Society of San Francisco.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages 593-594,
Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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